Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

To go faster you must slow down.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!